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OGUN: One dead, five injured as Customs, smugglers clash again On By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta At least, one person has been confirmed dead following a clash between officers of Nigeria Customs Services and some rice smugglers in Oke Ola area of Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government area of Ogun State on Saturday. Vanguard learnt that trouble started when Customs officers stormed a hideout where the imported rice were stored,  shooting into the air to scare the smugglers. Armed too, the smuggler...

Vanguard News SEVEN YEARS AFTER EXILE: I’ve forgiven my attackers On By James Ogunnaike THE Olofin of Ado-Odo in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Lateef Adeniran has cleared the air on his purported return to the palace after seven years and seven months in exile that followed his attack in 2013. It would be recalled that Oba Adeniran was in April 2013 attacked by some angry youths in the town. He was beaten and stripped naked by the people, who were said to have earlier ...

Yelutide: Vigilante group to deploy six million officers On James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The Vigilante Group of Nigeria, (VGN) says it has concluded arrangement to deploy no fewer than six million of its officers, to ensure hitch-free celebrations during the Christmas and New Year festivities. The Commander General of the Group, Dr Usman. Muhammad Jahun disclosed this in a press statement made available to newsmen by the Group’s National Public Relations Officer, Mr Nureni Adedoyin. Jahun expla...

FG tracking new type of coronavirus in Nigeria On Kindly Share This Story: …Strain traced to South Africa …Again, FCT shuts bars, clubs, others, limits wedding guests to 50, lKwara imposes partial lock down …Ondo cancels cross-over service …Gov Abiodun suspends carnivals, cross-over gatherings By Sola Ogundipe, Dayo Johnson,  Omeiza Ajayi & Demola Akinyemi, James Ogunnaike The Federal Government is investigating claims by Nigerian scientists that the mutated variant of the coronavirus...

By James Ogunnaike Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has expressed his happiness and relief over the safe rescue of the over 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, captured by bandits more than a week ago. Expressing his joy in Abeokuta, Governor Abiodun noted that the abduction of the students apart from throwing the nation into a sad mood, had also created negative mentions in international media and a disservice to the admirable education policy o...

Ayetoro attack: Hoodlums attacked our personnel ― Customs On By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Authorities of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) have declared that it was hoodlums who attacked its personnel in Kikelomo area of Ayetoro, the headquarters of Yewa North local government area of Ogun State on Tuesday while carrying out their constitutional duty of anti-smuggling. The Public Relations Officer of the FOU unit Zone A of the NCS, DSC Theophilus Duniya who disclosed...

One dies, others injured as customs, smugglers clash in Ogun On By James Ogunnaike Palpable fear has gripped residents of Ayetoro community, headquarters of Yewa North Local government area of Ogun State following clash with suspected smugglers and Special anti-smuggling task force which left one person dead and many others injured. It was gathered that the ugly incident which occurred on Tuesday morning had left the residents of the town to flee the town following the house to house search fo...

OOUTH NANNM disassociates self from protest over sacked nurses On By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) branch, Sagamu has dissociated itself from the recent protest over two nurses sacked by the management of the teaching hospital for alleged gross misconduct. The Association in a statement signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Mrs. Y. O. Ogundein and Mr. D. A. Rasaki respectively, on M...

Amotekun corps not permitted to carry arms — Ex-IGP, Ehindero On James Ogunnaike A retired Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero has appealed to operatives of the South West Security Network (Amotekun corps) to strictly adhere to the country’s constitution that forbids them from bearing fire-arm in the course of their operation. Ehindero said the regional Corps was to be an information and intelligence gathering outfit rather than an arm carrying one, stressing that the law that est...

Vanguard News Get involved in Nigerian project, Isiaka charges youths On James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta The governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in the 2019 election in Ogun State, Gboyega Nasir Isiaka has charged Nigerian youths to get involve in the Nigerian project so that we can have the Nigeria of our dream. Isiaka, gave the charge at the inauguration of the State’s Chapter of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries And Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) and the ...